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"おとうとはアニメが大好きです。"
Translation:My little brother loves anime.
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"My little brother loves cartoons" wasn't acceped? I know "アニメ" has a much broader meaning than "anime" does in English.
You are correct; I'm pretty sure that should be accepted, since Japan uses アニメ to refer to all animated works (at least on TV).
Good question. I don't know if Japan makes a distinction between Western / foreign cartoons and its own. I think it probably does. If so, we should accept "cartoons" to mean Western animation and "anime" to mean Japanese native animation. And I think that distinction is important because, just as people who like The Simpsons don't necessarily like anime, Japanese anime watchers might not like the various offerings of Matt Groening and Seth Macfarlane.
アニメ is used in Japanese to refer to all animated works (not just Japanese ones).
I looked that up several years ago, and, hilariously enough, turns out there's no such distinction in Japanese language nor culture. We see Japanese cartoons as something special and use a special word for them, separating them from all the other animated cartoons, while for the Japanese themselves they are simply cartoons. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's pretty funny.
It's the same with a lot of things, like bento for example. People tend to make everything Japan related a much bigger deal than it actually is
Yes, to an extent, you would need とても好き to justify translating "likes ～ a lot". But more than that, in Japanese, 大好き conveys a significantly stronger feeling than 好き, such that translating 大好き simply as "likes ～ a lot" doesn't properly capture it.
I had "my little brother really likes anime" and was marked wrong for not having loves
Similar to an earlier comment asking about "likes ~ a lot", "really likes" requires modifying the word 好き with 本当に (ほんとうに) or すごく. There is a subtly different emphasis or strength compared to 大好き. For a translation, I probably would accept it, but for a learning exercise (which this is) I can understand why it's marked incorrect.
This translation is wrong because アニメ means cartoon in English and not anime! The English word "anime" is probably something like "ni ho n no a ni me" in Japanese.
「アニメ」is usually considered to be a Japanese "umbrella term" for any, if not all, animated works; be it Japanese or English.
